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Traumatic Brain Injury, Anesthesia for

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Brain edema; Brain injury; Epidural hemorrhage; Head injury; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Intracranial hemorrhage; Intraventricular hemorrhage; Ruptured cerebral aneurysm; Secondary insults after traumatic brain injury; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Subdural hemorrhage

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is any mechanical force applied to the cranial vault that causes external or internal damage to the brain. Primary brain injury is one that occurs at the moment of impact, and is characterized by mechanical damage. Secondary brain injury is characterized by a cascade of pathological processes (biochemical, inflammatory, and cytotoxic) that are initiated at the time of onset of injury but may progress and present at a later period in time. This entry focuses on management of patients with intracranial injury for intracranial procedures; similar goal should be used when treating TBI patients for extracranial surgery

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

    Abhijit Lele

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, 1600 SW Archer road, Gainesville, FL, 32603, USA

    Nelson Nicolás Algarra

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  1. Departments of Anesthesiology, Surgery and Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA

    Peter J. Papadakos

  2. Department of Surgery, Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Rochester, School of Medicine, Rochester, New York, USA

    Mark L. Gestring

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Lele, A., Algarra, N.N. (2015). Traumatic Brain Injury, Anesthesia for. In: Papadakos, P.J., Gestring, M.L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Trauma Care. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29613-0_489

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